DLA Architecture has landed the job of designing a much-anticipated £270m scheme on the site of the former International Swimming Pool in Leeds where efforts by Make and Allies & Morrison both failed.

The practice is the third to take on the beleaguered site, which has been used as a surface car park for over 10 years following the flattening of the landmark brutalist baths in 2009.

The building, closed in 2007, was designed in 1967 by John Poulson, the designer of the now-demolished office building above the City of London’s Cannon Street station who was jailed in 1974 on corruption charges.

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